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Taurine Newsgroups
alt.culture.bullfight
The abuelito of taurine internet newsgroups, complete with its own resident pundits, curmudgeons, and anti-taurine regulars. This is the only group whose sole focus is the
mundo taurino, and the posts can be quite esoteric. Posts typically appear in English with a regular minority in Spanish (some Portugese and Catalan too), and include news (most up-to-date during the Spanish
temporada; frequently several new posts per day), occasional binary files
(photos).
Good place to post requests for information -- group is frequented by some
VERY seasoned aficionados.
Any usenet group
focused on a country in which bullfights occur may, at times have taurine-interest
posts. These are most likely to be in Spanish than in English, and occur sporadically, in flurries -- more likely to cluster around the dates of important national ferias. See, for example:
(Note: These groups come and go as quickly as internet web sites do ... so don't be surprised if these links lead you nowhere)
If your
news server does not provide access to one of these usenet groups, try
the excellent service provided by DejaNews
-- you can simply search for the group you are interested in, and then
read the posts from their archives. You can also post TO the group here.
If you ARE able to connect directly, it would be worth your time to visit
DejaNews anyway -- many times it's archive will contain many posts that
your newsserver missed.
As an alternative, you might try this Japanese archive
of alt.culture.bullfight posts. It's a web site, so you should be able
to connect to it with your browser.
Dedicated Taurine Mailing Lists
Mundo Taurino
(Sign up from the links on our homepage). Mundo Taurino runs a handful of mailing lists through which taurine news and commentary are circulated. Mail is distributed in Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese. Most is distributed in Spanish (since we've little time to do translations from the original language, and the majority is written in Spanish). The mailing lists are not automated, and all mail passes through the webmaster's hands before distribution. Messages are not censored for content, however (except for the rejection of anti-taurine mail). Mail is sent daily to the Spanish-reading recipients (less frequently to the other groups), and includes a daily listing of all the taurine news available from net sources.
El Toro de Madrid
The Asociación El Toro de Madrid runs a mailing list through it's classy website. Sign up through the link on their homepage. Messages here are handled by software, and the group is unmoderated (i.e., nobody reads messages before they're distributed). Messages are (almost?) exclusively Spanish-language, somewhat Iberiocentric, and highly "interactive" among the list's more active members. The list generates a handful of messages every day.
¡Toros en México!
This list (sign up from the link on either Spanish-language version of the website) sends out "phrases of the week" and occasional news focused on bullfighting in México. Little "interaction" occurs in this mailing list (as the webmaster's says in his "regulations"): "Messages with polemic or discursive content are never distributed. This is to avoid conflicts between the members of the list and to respect all their points of view. The tone of list's messages is to be exclusively informative." (Our translation). Messages are distributed in Spanish.
If you
have comments or suggestions, please send them to Mundo Taurino